One of my colleagues invited Maarten and I to a 'crossroads' Christmas show. At first I wasn't sure what this was about but after asking a few of my colleagues 2 things became clear:
1) everybody loves that show: it's very well known and respected
2) crossroads is a non denominational church which means they welcome everybody, no matter if you're catholic or protestant. Some people therefore would say it's not a 'real' church, as they wouldn't focus on specific 'catholic' rules for example.
2 colleagues also went and they were very friendly to give us a lift and to take us to a great Thai place beforehand where we found out that in the States people first cut all of their food and then they put down their knife and eat everything with their fork in their right hand! Our colleagues tried it out our way and said it was very very difficult for them to eat with knife and fork. Very funny :) also,we had dinner at 5h15. And that's not even very weird here :)
And then we went to the show. Don't imagine a church like the ones we know in Europe. Picture a huge building, from the outside it looked more like a department store or a hypermarket... And thousands of people (really!), all there to attend this Christmasshow... I started to understand why crossroads is also known as a 'megachurch'.
Introduced by the head priest who turned out to be a cool funny quite young guy in jeans, the show began.
75 minutes of amazing ballet, songs, theatre and acts later we were definitely in the Christmas mood, even standing up to clap and sing... I guess you had to be there to believe it!
A few links to help you to give an idea: a teaser video of the show and the opening song and animation!
Merry Christmas all!
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